Oracle files a new lawsuit against the company. This time, it was directed against the versions of Android 2.3.x up to 5.x. You should also use the 37 Java API packages without any permission. Google should have to pay damages of an undisclosed amount.
The dispute over the use of Java in Android goes on. Oracle has filed a new lawsuit against Google. The Internet group to versions with the end of 2010, introduced in Android 2.3.x Gingerbread, 3.x Honeycomb, 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.1.x to 4.3.x Jelly Bean, 4.4.x KitKat and 5.x Lollipop his violate copyrights.
“As in the previous Android Version, this six copy Android Releases cited thousands of lines of source code of the Java platform, as well as the structure, sequence and organization of the platform,” Computerworld from Oracle’s latest font set. “As previously, the Copy constitutes an infringement of copyright.”
The report shows that Oracle is emphasized that Google have expanded since the beginning of the dispute in the year 2010, the Android operating system is steadily increasing. In the meantime it’ll be in vehicles, TVs, Wearables, and various household appliances. With the mobile platform of the group also increased its advertising revenue. Google could skim off “the direct and indirect exploitation of the infringing code enormous profits”.
This is a serious harm to Oracle’s business with the runtime environment of Java, the company said. “Given the dominance of the Android over the years has been achieved through the continued unauthorized use of the 37 Java API packages, Android has now destroyed irrevocably Java’s fundamental value as a potential mobile operating system,” writes Oracle.
Oracle will once again reach an injunction against Google. In addition, it calls for compensation for damages of an undisclosed amount, as well as the reimbursement of its attorney’s fees. On demand of Computerworld, Google wanted to make a comment on the new lawsuit.
The U.S. Supreme Court had not decided at the end of June, to deal with the dispute between Google and Oracle. Last year, a court of appeal, the Oracle had been right. It reversed the judgment of the lower court and decided that the Oracle is subject to the 37 Java APIs, but the copyright. Currently, it is damages in the amount of one billion dollars.
Google has not defended with the Argument that a simple software instructions to be protectable. In his use of the Codes, it was a “Fair Use”exception, as provided for by copyright law, of course.
The consequences of the judgment for the software industry are not foreseeable, could contain a copyright on the Code, the possibilities of new developments. “I believe that this will have a strong deterrent effect,” says James Grimmel man 2014, a copyright lawyer specialised at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. “This means, among other things, that if you developed an App for a platform, and the platform owners access revoke, you received a copyright legal risk, if you move your App to a different platform.”
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[mit Material von Stefan Beiersmann, ZDNet.de]
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